RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sandy Rutherford Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 3:09 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Alex Zbyslaw Subject: RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ) On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 01:00:09 -0700

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-23 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:37:20 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Seagate wrote a paper on this titled: Seagate Technology Paper 338.1 Estimating Drive Reliability in Desktop Computers and Consumer Electronic Systems that explains how they define MTBF. Basically, they

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sandy Rutherford Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:15 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ) On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:37:20 -0700, Ted

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sandy Rutherford Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 6:16 PM To: Alex Zbyslaw Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ) On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:36:32 +0100

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of P.U.Kruppa Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 6:28 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: P.U.Kruppa; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ) As for knowing if a disk has failed, I think

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-22 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 01:00:09 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: With a RAID-1 card, mirroring, there are 2 ways to setup reads. The first way makes the assumption that you are mirroring purely for fault tolerance. In that case you would NOT see a ANY read from the second

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-22 Thread Steve Bertrand
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of P.U.Kruppa Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 9:28 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: P.U.Kruppa; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ) On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Ted

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Steve Bertrand wrote: I know this technique isn't feasable in all situations, but I try to have duplicate hardware. Especially with my IDE RAID1 servers, I'll from time to time during a maintenance window pop one of the RAID disks out, throw it in another box and ensure BOTH machines boot up

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-21 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:36:32 +0100, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Sandy Rutherford Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:52 PM In order to boost read performance, a RAID card should interleave reading from a RAID-1 volume by reading alternately from

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sandy Rutherford Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:52 PM In order to boost read performance, a RAID card should interleave reading from a RAID-1 volume by reading alternately from one drive and then the other.

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of P.U.Kruppa Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 6:37 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: P.U.Kruppa; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ) On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Sandy Rutherford Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:52 PM In order to boost read performance, a RAID card should interleave reading from a RAID-1 volume by reading alternately from one drive and then the other. You can see this in alternate blinking of the activity

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-20 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: What model of Proliant? ML 350 G4 Oh good, we have a customer that has been looking at one of these for FreeBSD and I'm glad to hear that you didn't have problems with it. Absolutely smooth - and I

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
P.U.Kruppa wrote: our school has just received a new HP ProLiant and I set up FreeBSD 5.4 -RELEASE with a RAID 1 system on it (using ciss driver). Is there any software tool which can show me the state of the two SCSI discs (if one is failing or if they are mirrored sorrectly) or is it

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-19 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: our school has just received a new HP ProLiant and I set up FreeBSD 5.4 -RELEASE with a RAID 1 system on it (using ciss driver). Is there any software tool which can show me the state of the two SCSI discs (if one is failing or if

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
What model of Proliant? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of P.U.Kruppa Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:56 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ) Hi everbody, our school has just received a new HP

RE: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-19 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: What model of Proliant? ML 350 G4 Uli. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of P.U.Kruppa Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:56 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Yet another RAID

Re: Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-19 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:28:14 +0100, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: A word of caution, though. A Linux system (which I help administer) had two SCSI disks mounted as RAID-1 through some kind of Adaptec controller. Recently the machine crashed and it transpires that one of the